Chocolate Chip Cookies

This is Sarabeth Levine’s favorite cookie because “everyone loves a chocolate-chip cookie at any time of year.” You can even make them in advance and save them for the upcoming holidays. If you choose to freeze the dough as a whole — rather than form into balls — do so in a plastic container and when ready to use, defrost the night before. Levine says, though, “I’ve never done it — but you can do it.” Read her baking tips here.

An aside: Levine doesn’t condone eating the dough with the inclusion of raw eggs. “If they just have to, then one lick only,” she says.